ADRIANA MATEO

12/22/2025

12/04/2025

Melissa Aldana (December 3 , 1988) Happy 37th trip around the sun my dear friend 🫶🏻🤩🥳

📸 Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 19:18 a private moment backstage, rehearsing at the Allen Room for the Birthday celebration of NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath Melissa Aldana Jimmy Heath Jazz at Lincoln Center Adriana Mateo 📸

11/30/2025

2024 Grammy Award winner, twelve-time Grammy nominee, and seven-time Latin Grammy Nominee, along with a fellowship recipient from the MacArthur Foundation, Miguel Zenón, performed at JazzWahi this past October. It was an intimate concert honoring the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was an honor to be the photographer documenting this cultural neighborhood Festival, which continues to grow and enrich the city of New York Miguel Zenon
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11/13/2025

Study With me in NY , explore , connect 📸🗽🤩

11/11/2025

Grammy Award Winner and recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship & MacArthur Fellowship Miguel Zenón at Washington Jazz Festival 2026 by

11/05/2025

Wishing my dear friend The Real Jeremy Pelt Fan Page a Happy Birthday!

photo Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este by ADRIANA MATEO

11/04/2025

Remembering Roy Hargrove ( October 16,1969- November 2,2018) ©️adrianmateo2018 Newport Jazz Festival Roy Hargrove

11/01/2025

The “Why” and “When”
We click the shutter to freeze a feeling, not just a subject. The camera is simply the tool, but the reason we pick it up is to make a tangible record of an internal experience. It’s the urgent need to share a moment that feels too important, too moving, or too true to simply pass by unrecorded.
When We Click (The Decisive Moment): The precise “when” is driven by a sudden, often brief, alignment of internal emotion and external reality. The moment wasn’t just when his hands were together; it was when HIS genuine feeling of respect was visible in his posture and expression. My heart recognized that emotion and signaled my finger to act.
A photo becomes valuable not because it shows a famous musician (the subject), but because it captures a gesture (the action) driven by a feeling (humility) which allowed my heart to recognize and drove me to the capture of that feeling and, this applies to everything. A flower or a landscape becomes Art when the photographer’s heart is there, finding and expressing a feeling—be it tranquility, wonder, melancholy, or joy—within the scene.

This moment was captured past May, 2025 and has inspired my next upcoming Lecture: “The Art Of Feeling In Music Photography “ ©️adrianamateo . Thank you Maestro Ron Carter for the continuous inspiration that drives me to create and to teach

10/27/2025

Jack DeJohnette Newport Jazz Festival

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10/27/2025

Today, we mourn the loss of a true legend and NEA Jazz Master, Jack DeJonhette ( August 9, 1942- October 26, 2025) . I had the profound honor of working alongside him many times. It is with deep sentiment that I post these photos, which bring back truly unforgettable moments we shared.
Jack DeJohnette Newport Jazz Festival Adriana Mateo